Massachusetts
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The Massachusetts Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and regional developments within Massachusetts. This Collection provides a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals exploring the historical significance and cultural evolution of this prominent state.
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Item Open Access Thomas Wetmore, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston: Together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City Page 116-117 (1834), An ordinance forbidding the firing of Guns, prohibiting Fireworks in certain cases, and to prevent damage by fire, § 1.(General Publisher, 1826)hat no person shall fire or discharge any gun, fowling piece, or fire arms within the limits of the city, which shall be loaded with balls or shot, or with powder only, under a penalty for every such offence, of a sum not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars: Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not extend to the firing of any gun or other fire arm, in the lawful defense of the person, family, or property of any citizen; nor to the firing of any such gun or fire arm at any military exercise or reviews.Item Open Access The Municipal Register, Containing the City Charter, with Rules and Orders of the City Council, Also the Ordinances, and a List of the Officers of the City of Roxbury, for 1848-49, City Document No. 5 at 58 § 16, An Ordinance To prevent unlawful and injurious practices in the streets and other public places in the city (1848)(General Publisher, 1848)Prohibited the discharge of any firearms within the city of RoxburyItem Open Access Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Salem, Together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City: Collated and Revised Pursuant to an Order of the City Council, at 67 § 18 (1853)(General Publisher, 1847)no gun-cotton, or other substance prepared, like it, for explosion, shall be kept within the limits of such town or city, excepting under the regulations and penalties that were then applicable by law to gunpowder; and if it shall be considered necessary for public safety, they may restrict the quantity to be so kept to one-fifth of the weight of gunpowder allowed by law in each case provided for.Item Open Access Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 240 § 1 (1837)(General Publisher, 1837)Enrolled every able bodied white male citizen resident between eighteen to forty-five into the miltiia except idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, persons convicted of any infamous crime.Item Open Access Mass. Rev. Stat., ch. 134, § 16 (1836)(General Publisher, 1836)Prohibited the carrying of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear an assault. Punishable by finding sureties for keeping the peace for a term up to 6 months.Item Open Access Theron Metcalf, 1836 Mass. Rev. Stat. 750, ch. 134 § 16(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited the carry of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear assault, injury, or violence to oneself, their family, or property. Violators required to post a surety not exceeding six months.Item Open Access An Act in Addition to an Act, entitled “An Act to Provide for the Proof of Fire Arms, Manufactured within this Commonwealth,” 1814 Mass. Acts 464, ch. 192, § 2(General Publisher, 1814)Requiring all musket barrels and pistol barrels, manufactured within this Commonwealth to be proved by the person appointed according to the provisions of an act . . . with a charge of powder equal in weight to the ball which fits the bore of the barrel to be proved.Item Open Access An Act Providing for the Punishment of the Crimes of Burglary, and Other Breaking and Entering of Buildings, §§ 1-5, MASS. GEN. LAWS (Manning & Loring 1807) (Passed 1806).(General Publisher, 1806)BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any person, with intent to kill, rob, steal, commit a rape, or to do or perpetrate any other felony, shall in the night time break and enter, or having, with such felonious intent, entered, shall in the night time break a dwelling house, any person then being lawfully therein, and such offender being, at the time of such breaking or entering, armed with a dangerous weapon, or arming himself or herself, in such house, with a dangerous weapon, or committing an actual assault upon any person lawfully being in such house; every such offender, and any person present, aiding, assisting or consenting in such burglary, or accessary thereto before the fact, by counselling, hiring, or procuring such burglary to be committed, who shall be duly convicted thereof in the Supreme Judicial Court, shall suffer the punishment of death.Item Open Access 1805 Mass. Acts 111–13, ch. 81(General Publisher, 1805)Authorized the governor to appoint two provers per county who would prove musket and pistol barrels before sale. Proven barrels stamped. Violators fined ten dollars.Item Open Access 1804 Mass. Acts. 111, ch. 81, An Act to Provide for the Proof of Fire Arms Manufactured Within this Commonwealth.(General Publisher, 1805)Requiring appointment of two per county for the inspection of barrels. Barrels required inspection under varying charges of powder and at varying degrees of elevation. Proven barrels are stamped post-inspection. Failed barrels fined thirty cents. Failed pistols fined twenty-five cents. Unproven barrels & pistols fined at ten dollars.